“This is a step in the right direction”: Ed Sheeran gives thumbs up to government’s national curriculum changes

Ed Sheeran performs during the Heart and Armor Foundation benefit concert at The Wiltern on September 19, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

Ed Sheeran seems to be a happy chap. The government appears to have addressed several of his criticisms of the national curriculum, specifically the way it was sidelining music education.

Earlier this year, Sheeran wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister, Sir Kier Starmer, calling on the government to commit £250 million to “repair decades of dismantling” music education in UK schools. The letter was co-signed by Elton John, Annie Lennox, Harry Styles and Central Cee, among others.